Sentence examples for bed of cucumber from inspiring English sources

3. Serve each lamb chop on a bed of cucumber salad.

On the hilltop up the street from the museum, a modern white restaurant called A Ver Tavira served a lunch of plump scallops and shrimp on a bed of cucumber and strawberries followed by baked mullet drizzled in olive oil.

He also produced his own versions of fish dishes introduced by several predecessors, like Shaun Hill's scallops with lentils and coriander sauce and John Webber's monkfish on a bed of cucumber with grain mustard sauce.

Lump crab-meat chimichangas were cut on the bias and presented upright on a bed of cucumber-celery salad.

Another winner was tuna tataki, lightly seared fish resting on a bed of julienne cucumber and ponzu sauce, with seaweed salad on the side.

The appetizers that made waves were the mountain of crisp calamari with a lemon-caper aioli, tasty shrimp enchiladas on a corn tortilla, and a special of polenta-crusted oysters (at least eight) on a bed of noodlelike cucumber strands with an accompanying charred tomato aioli.

Lime performs well, too, in an attractive appetizer of tuna tartare pressed on a bed of finely chopped cucumber and lightly touched with a lime-ginger dressing.

Char, lightly salted and served on a bed of barely pickled cucumber, with a cauliflower remoulade and a few chopped beets, was the most complex dish I tasted, and happened to be another winner.

Entrees include grilled slices of pork chop marinated with lemon grass, on a bed of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers; seasoned curry rice vermicelli with chicken and Chinese broccoli; and prawns and scallops sauteed with broccoli, with lightly fried Asian yam.

With a nod to that tradition, most of the dishes at Saigon City were attractively presented on a bed of lettuce with sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, house-pickled vegetables and fresh herbs (coriander was missing one night, but upon request our waitress brought us a small bowl of it).

Create a blend of cucumbers and oatmeal.